Southern Chocolate Pie

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• 4 ounces baker's german sweet chocolate
• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 2/3 cups evaporated milk
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 unbaked 9-inch pie shell, fluted
• 1 1/3 cups baker's angel flake coconut
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Recipe

• 1 melt chocolate with butter over low heat, stirring until blended. remove from heat.
• 2 gradually blend in milk.
• 3 in a seperate bowl mix sugar, cornstarch, and salt thoroughly. beat in eggs and vanilla. gradually blend in chocolate mixture.
• 4 pour into pie shell.
• 5 combine coconut and pecans; sprinkle over filling.
• 6 bake in moderate oven (375*) until top puffs and begins to crack-about 50 minutes. (center of pie should be soft.).
• 7 cool at least 3 hours before serving.